The development and critical junctures of EU Public Procurement Rules vis-à-vis the prevention of bid rigging

Giosa, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7509-9605 (2021) The development and critical junctures of EU Public Procurement Rules vis-à-vis the prevention of bid rigging. European Procurement and Public Private Partnership Law Review, 16 (1). pp. 39-51. ISSN 2194-7376 doi: 10.21552/epppl/2021/1/7

Abstract/Summary

This article argues that the prevention of bid rigging has not been factored into the policy design of the EU Public Procurement Rules in a systematic and consistent way. As it will be shown, the critical junctures of EU Public Procurement Rules did not emerge alongside the anti-cartel legislation in Europe, but entirely independently of the latter. As a result, the current European Public Sector Directive 2014/24/EU is not adequately collusion proof and there is still a long way to go.